What's new — June 2026
Find out about the changes we have made.
You can also check our known issues, fixes and what is coming soon.
New Additional Frequency Options
Annual and Quarterly are now available as Frequency options for Pay Schedules.
API Update: Additional Pay Schedule Frequencies
As part of this release, the GetAll and GetAllForEmployer endpoints now return default pay schedules for new Annual and Quarterly additional frequencies, with the existing frequencies, in the JSON response.
API customers must make sure they can correctly process the new PayPeriod values detailed in the New PayPeriod Values table.
| New PayPeriod Values | |
| Frequency | PayPeriod Value |
|---|---|
| Annual | 1001 |
| Quarterly | 4 |
Coming soon for Additional Frequencies
Support for a Half-Yearly additional pay period is being introduced soon. Customers may want to prepare for this value in advance. To do so, the PayPeriod Value for the Half-Yearly frequency is 2.
Holiday Pay
Holiday pay now includes options for Average Holiday Pay If an Employee's work has no fixed or regular hours, their holiday pay will be based on the average pay they received over the previous 52 weeks (or a average based on the available number of weeks if less than the full 52. calculated in days, and to add extra holiday days at a higher rate than standard pay.
Average Holiday Pay in Days
When set to Days, the Calculation in Hours / Days for Average Holiday If an Employee's work has no fixed or regular hours, their holiday pay will be based on the average pay they received over the previous 52 weeks (or a average based on the available number of weeks if less than the full 52. Pay now correctly applies.
Enhanced Holiday Pay
Holiday pay options now support enhanced schemes. Administrators can set up balances, offsets, and top-ups. The schemes can be applied to employees, and add extra holiday days at a higher rate than standard pay, or days where no payment is made without affecting balances.
For more information, go to Enhanced holiday pay.
Average Holiday Pay Statutory pay exclusion options
The statutory pay exclusion settings for Average Holiday Pay schemes have been updated to give more control over how statutory pay affects average holiday pay calculations.
What has changed
- The Ignore where statutory pay is present option has been renamed to Do not include periods where all payments are statutory.
- A new option has been added, Do not include periods that have a mix of normal and statutory payments. This excludes any period where statutory pay is present alongside normal pay.
Only one option can be selected at a time.
These settings are in Edit Details. Select Leave, then Add Average Holiday Pay Scheme or select an existing scheme to update the settings. For more information, go to Statutory pay exclusion options for average holiday pay.
Average Holiday Pay history
The Statutory Pay Only column in Pay History has been renamed to Statutory Pay. The column now displays Yes or No depending on the exclusion option selected, or the value provided on the import.
Other Average Holiday Pay Fixes and Updates
- CSV header matching for Average Holiday Pay imports is no longer case sensitive.
- Average holiday days can now be imported for payment from the employee screen.
Fixes and Updates
- Performance and security improvements.
- Payments for ended roles are now included in pensions when Auto Tier is activated for Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS).
- Audits now display information correctly from the Reports screen.
- LGPS iConnect files now display more than one worker group A group of employees who have the same pension contribution level and other settings..
- Data is too large error no longer displays when adding occupational sick pay for an employee with more than four active roles.
- Termination payments on a supplementary run is no longer incorrectly calculated base don taxable and no-taxable amount split.
- All changes made to Employee personal details are now included in the audit log.
- Prior year pension refund is now included on the Required Payments report.
- Employer Audit now includes information about created and updated Pay Schedules.
- P45 A P45 is a document issued by an employer to an employee when they leave a job. It shows details about the's employment, including their start and end dates, how much they were paid, and how much tax they paid during their employment. The is made up of four parts: Part 1 is sent to HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC), Part 1A is kept by the employer, and Parts 2 and 3 are to the employee as a record of their earnings and tax paid. The P45 is an important document that employees need to give to their new employer when they start a new job as it provides information about their tax code and previous earnings, which helps the employer calculate their tax and National Insurance contributions. Marked as Sent now updates correctly when importing employees when the Allow updates to existing records option is set.
- The Payment Requires Processing indicator is now removed correctly when a payrun is finalised, including for sick leave with no paylines and extended or shortened leave beyond 28 weeks.
- Leave reversals are now processed correctly across all leave types.
- P30 Month end summary report, highlights the amount to be paid to the HMRC for that tax month. documents can now be generated and sent as PDF attachments.
- Benefits imported by CSV now correctly update existing benefits rather than creating a new one.
- Text on P60 The P60 form is issued by employers each employee detailing their taxable income and deductions made by PAYE (both for income tax and National Insurance contributions) for the tax year (6 April to 5 April). The P60 has to be given to employees by 31 May. Parts 1 and 2 of the P14 were rendered redundant by RTI at the beginning of the 2013/2014 tax year. updated to remove quote marks and P45 updated to include the text that was missing for API customers using new QuestPDF Reports.
- Statutory Pay Report now downloads correctly when SPBNIRE - Statutory Parental Bereavement Pay (Northern Ireland) is selected.
IRIS My ePay Window integration
- Pay code descriptions now support a longer character limit.
- A pay code can now be set as a payroll benefit.
- A pay code can now be set as an adjustment.
- The Is Adjustment option on a pay code no longer resets when the pay code is edited.
- Resolved issues with Postponement letters not sending correctly to IRIS My ePay Window when Auto Enrolment pension scheme is not selected.